It has been revealed that West Lothian has one of the poorest records of all 32 local authorities for vaccinations.
Despite almost one in three people in West Lothian having had their Covid-19 vaccination jabs, the county is fourth lowest among all the regions in Scotland.
Public Health Scotland announced on February 26 that they will now be releasing vaccination figures as part of their daily updates.
The latest data available as of March 1 shows that West Lothian has vaccinated 46,054 residents, 31.2 per cent of the county’s population.
The new PHS data also revealed that over 2000 thousand more people in the county were vaccinated since Friday.
Edinburgh had the lowest figure with 27.4 per cent, Glasgow were second lowest with 27.8 per cent and Aberdeen were next with 27.9 .
Northern and rural regions like Na h-Eileanan Siar with 50.4 per cent, Dumfries and Galloway with 47 per cent and the Shetland Islands with 46.2 per cent were among the highest.
NHS Lothian previously explained that their over 80’s programme is being delivered by GP practices, while in all but one of the other boards, the over 80’s programme is being delivered at vaccination centres.
They say that this skews the data in the PHS figures.
West Lothian's biggest mass vaccination centre in Bathgate is said to be capable of vaccinating 12,000 people per week.
It was revealed this week that a third of Scotland’s adult population have been given a coronavirus vaccine, with more than 1.5 million jabs administered.
The First Minister said 1,515,980 people in Scotland had now received their first dose.
Ms Sturgeon said: “The fact that more than one and a half million people have now received the first dose of vaccination is, I think, a really significant milestone,”
“We’ve now given a first dose to almost exactly one third of the adult population and that includes virtually everyone in the top four clinical priority groups recommended by the JCVI.”
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